6 bodies retrieved at cosmodrome

1:18PM BST 13 May 2002

RESCUERS pulled six bodies from the wreckage of a collapsed roof today at Russia's main space launch site, and searched for two other trapped workers.

Emergency officials held out little hope that anyone had survived the Sunday accident at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A construction brigade of seven Kazakhs and one Belarusian was on the roof of the 80-metre tall hangar when it caved in.